Both are open source runtime & deploy options with comparable terms, so the choice comes down to which model of the problem you prefer — compare the descriptions below rather than the licence.
Durable execution — the run survives a crash, a deploy and a week of waiting.
Paradigm's self-hosted control plane: one shared team agent, an isolated k8s sandbox per Slack thread, and no raw API keys in the agent's environment.
Brings your own harness — it runs Claude Code, Codex or Amp inside the sandbox rather than replacing them. Credential boundaries mean the agent calls approved services without ever holding the key.
| Temporal | Centaur | |
|---|---|---|
| Licence | Open source | Open source |
| Pricing | freemium | open source |
| Self-hostable | Yes | Yes |
| Languages | TypeScript, Python | Any language |
| Install | — | — |
| Keys required | None | None |
Both are open source runtime & deploy options with comparable terms, so the choice comes down to which model of the problem you prefer — compare the descriptions below rather than the licence. Temporal: Durable execution — the run survives a crash, a deploy and a week of waiting. Centaur: Paradigm's self-hosted control plane: one shared team agent, an isolated k8s sandbox per Slack thread, and no raw API keys in the agent's environment.
Temporal can run on your own infrastructure. Centaur can run on your own infrastructure.
Temporal is open source (freemium). Centaur is open source (open source).
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